Originally Posted by Grinity
Originally Posted by AZgirasol
Oh yes! This fits 100%. It is perfectionism, and engagement. If the questions are too simple - he slows down even more. So on more complex questions/situations he speeds up. During his testing they noted it various times - he is engaged so there isn't any disability it is just the challenging factors. So no challenge = slower processing. For me it doesn't make sense, but I am not in his shoes, and he can't explain it.

This is not at all unusual. I wouldn't truly call it slow processing, I would call it poor fit of his educational environment to his learning needs for too long - resulting in unhealthy perfectionism.

My son - now 13 - described it as: The easy questions are so easy that I think they couldn't possibly be this easy, so I study them carefully to figure out what the trick is.

How sad!
Grinity


Wow. We are experiencing this now with DC. frown This might be the answer we are looking for.